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The anti-Trump movement is in tatters. Now it’s scrambling to remain relevant.
Politico ^ | November 29,2024 | By LISA KASHINSKY and ADAM WREN

Posted on 11/29/2024 3:00:05 PM PST by Hojczyk

Donald Trump’s victory splintered the already fractured Never Trump movement into shards and further boxed out his MAGA outcasts, leaving some of his most prominent Republican critics scrambling for relevance in a reordered GOP.

In recent days, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley ripped into two of the president-elect’s top appointees, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on her radio show. Former Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock skewered Trump’s nominees as a Cabinet of “Putinists and pedophiles.” And former Vice President Mike Pence attempted to rally anti-abortion conservatives against Kennedy as Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary.

Trump’s convincing win allowed the president-elect to quickly consolidate power within his party as he prepares to return to Washington. And it has scattered the remnants of the Republican resistance to him back to their respective corners to regroup.

Some, like Haley and Pence, who criticize their former boss on some issues but remain aligned with him on others, still believe they can change a GOP that has near-fully bent its knee to Trump. But others, particularly those among the pillars of the original Never-Trump movement who were long ago pushed aside by their party or left it of their own volition, have given up trying to resurrect Republicanism as they knew it.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antitrump; dcircularfiringsquad; itsthemarxismstupid; meltdown; tds; tdsimbeciles; wefyounggloballeader
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1 posted on 11/29/2024 3:00:05 PM PST by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Nikki Haley has a radio show? Awww. Bless her heart.


2 posted on 11/29/2024 3:04:37 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: Hojczyk
Never Trump movement

It never was a movement. It was always a grift.

3 posted on 11/29/2024 3:05:19 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Hojczyk

Former Virginia Rep. Barbara Comstock skewered Trump’s nominees as a Cabinet of “Putinists and pedophiles.”

Comstockery already has a definition. Is she trying to broaden it? Also who?


4 posted on 11/29/2024 3:09:25 PM PST by cdcdawg ("She runs a mean pick six," said Tim Walz, a fraud.)
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To: Hojczyk
Compare and contrast -- losers versus winners:

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5 posted on 11/29/2024 3:10:03 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: mbrfl

One way you can tell if a politician is part of the club is the degree to which his or her marital infidelities become campaign issues. With all the baggage that both Nikki and Kamala have, it’s remarkable how little it came up in their campaigns. The Deep State doesn’t fire on their own. Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth on the other hand...


6 posted on 11/29/2024 3:11:10 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It’s a mental disorder.


7 posted on 11/29/2024 3:12:43 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Hojczyk

Ahhh, look at me, I’m a shattered
I’m a shattered
Look at me, I’m a shattered, yeah

[Verse 3]
Pride and joy and greed and sex
That’s what makes that town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street (shattered)
And look at me, I’m in tatters, yeah (shattered)

I’m in tatters, what does it matter (shattered)
Does it matter, uh-huh (shattered)
Does it matter? Uh-huh
I’m shattered
Mm-mm, I’m shattered

credit rolling stones...


8 posted on 11/29/2024 3:14:56 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: Hojczyk

Anti-Trump trash dressed up as news.


9 posted on 11/29/2024 3:16:24 PM PST by Luke21
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I don’t even consider those illegal human bean RATS as Americans. There are Americans and then there are tree limb hangers with “college diplomas” showing a degree in Angry, Lesbian Studies and Dance Moves or Studies in What Makes Tater Swuft and BeyondC Tick.


10 posted on 11/29/2024 3:17:29 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (In 2022, 613,383 Americans died by abortion. In the same year 19,651 died by firearms.)
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“Nikki Haley has a radio show?”

I hope her advertisers sell cat food.

Lol.


11 posted on 11/29/2024 3:22:11 PM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: Hojczyk

Barbara Crapstock has her administrations mixed up. Dementia?
Either that or she may be doing drugs accusing Trump of having a Cabinet of “Putinists and pedophiles.” Sammy Brinton and Rachel Levine were hired by her butt boy, Joe Pedo. Crapstone seams to be suffering from a severe case of TDS.


12 posted on 11/29/2024 3:23:21 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (In 2022, 613,383 Americans died by abortion. In the same year 19,651 died by firearms.)
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To: Hojczyk

I’d make a modest suggestion that they drop their slogan “We don’t care if the economy is in ruins, the country is invaded, and everyone dies in nuclear warfare if it hurts Trump!” Not that it isn’t true, it’s just a little outdated at this point.


13 posted on 11/29/2024 3:29:22 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Hojczyk

REMAIN?


14 posted on 11/29/2024 3:36:20 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Hojczyk

That’s going to be difficult since they never were relevant to begin with.


15 posted on 11/29/2024 3:38:43 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“Rep. Barbara Comstock skewered Trump’s nominees as a Cabinet of “Putinists and pedophiles.”

Cute how they got that despicable quote in there.


16 posted on 11/29/2024 3:47:49 PM PST by iamgalt
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BS! Do not fall for the narrative! Suckerberg and those that despise MAGA are going all contritionary for the purpose of infiltrating and destroying MAGA from within……WAKE UP PEOPLE DONT FALL FOR IT!!!! They are evil and president trump better NOT FALL FOR IT!


17 posted on 11/29/2024 3:48:29 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: mass55th
These losers remind me of the shiny, happy kids in high school who acted like we envied them, when we really could care less about them. However, if they attacked, they got pummeled.

I mean, really….this guy needs to be pantsed.

Asked where Never Trumpers go from here, Jeff Timmer, former executive director of the Michigan GOP and a member of the Lincoln Project, told POLITICO: “You mean reeducation camps? I’m being an optimist.”

18 posted on 11/29/2024 4:15:44 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It never was a movement. It was always a grift.


The movement turned out to be flatulence.


19 posted on 11/29/2024 4:25:51 PM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: mbrfl

Icky Nikki makes me sicky


20 posted on 11/29/2024 5:13:40 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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